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Face-to-face communication over the Internet : emotions in a web of culture, language, and technology
\"Social platforms such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter have rekindled the initial excitement of cyberspace. Text based computer-mediated communication has been enriched with face-to-face communication such as Skype, as users move from desk tops to laptops with integrated cameras and related hardware. Age, gender and culture barriers seem to have crumbled and disappeared as the user base widens dramatically. Other than simple statistics relating to e-mail usage, chatrooms and blog subscriptions, we know surprisingly little about the rapid changes taking place. This book assembles leading researchers on non-verbal communication, emotion, cognition and computer science to summarize what we know about the processes relevant to face-to-face communication as it pertains to telecommunication, including video-conferencing. The authors take stock of what has been learned regarding how people communicate, in person or over distance, and set the foundations for solid research helping to understand the issues, implications and possibilities that lie ahead\"--Provided by publisher.
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From tribe to Facebook : the transformational role of social networks
The effects of online social networking have been transformed at a global level and nowhere more so than in the Arab world.
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High-quality hybrid meetings should be the norm
[...]greater effort from conference organizers to make provision for a high-quality hybrid experience. For a limited period this year, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), based in Nairobi, offered funding for researchers who were breastfeeding to pay for someone to travel with them and help care for a child at conferences, says AAS executive director Peggy Oti-Boateng. At a minimum, sessions should be recorded and made available to watch; funders could make this a condition for access to conference grants.
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Can you hear me? : how to connect with people in a virtual world
Communicating virtually is cool, useful, and becoming more universal every day. But the actual communication is often quite bad. Indeed, everyone agrees that the quality of human connection we feel in virtual meetings, email, and other forms of virtual communication is awful. Worse than boring, virtual communication very often leads to misunderstandings, because it deprives us of the emotional knowledge that helps us understand context. How can we fix this? A key problem is that we are busy trying to replicate the experience of a face-to-face meeting in the virtual world, assuming the same rules apply. That is a big mistake. We need to shift our focus and energy to a new challenge, unique to the virtual era. As communication expert Nick Morgan argues in this essential book, recent research suggests that we need to learn to consciously deliver a whole set of cues, both verbal and nonverbal, that we used to deliver unconsciously in the previrtual era. Indeed, we need to update all our rules of connection for the virtual sphere, rethinking them from the beginning and avoiding the mistake of assuming that they are inherently similar to face-to-face connections. Can You Hear Me? explains and guides you through this important process, describing what the current research reveals about what works and what doesn't in virtual communications, and creating a new set of rules and practical tips for how to connect with people--your team, your audience, your organization--when you can't be physically present. If you work or manage in an organization that has more than one office or customers who aren't nearby, Can You Hear Me? is your essential communications manual for twenty-first-century work.-- Provided by publisher
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Unsane and the Consequences of Gaslighting
Delivered as voiceover narration, these are the opening lines of dialogue in Unsane (2018), Steven Soderbergh’s 28th narrative feature film (out of 34, as I write this) and second after his brief hiatus (initially described as retirement) from filmmaking. Unsane’s opening breaths establish an uncomfortable split priority of a speaker wanting to communicate how much someone else means to them, but only being able to do so by justifying the position of that “you” on the terms of an “I.” As the film’s title sequence ends and its story properly begins, any sense of ambivalence or parity quickly subsides for a very specifically one-sided, preferential, and unjust experience of gaslighting. Ignoring this earlier exchange, likely because she has been hardwired to brush these kinds of interaction under the carpet, Sawyer selectively describes the new job to her mother in corporate speak, using buzz words like a “competitive” company philosophy and a positively “demanding” work environment. After seeing a counsellor at Highland Creek Behavioral Center about her adjustment and struggle, Sawyer is manipulated as part of an elaborate health insurance claim scheme and unknowingly signs a consent form for voluntary 24-hour admission to the locked psychiatric hospital. Sawyer’s agency is reduced to pieces of paper with information dictating her ability to function within this community.
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Telepsychiatry versus face-to-face treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed healthcare significantly and telepsychiatry is now the primary means of treatment in some countries.
To compare the efficacy of telepsychiatry and face-to-face treatment.
A comprehensive meta-analysis comparing telepsychiatry with face-to-face treatment for psychiatric disorders. The primary outcome was the mean change in the standard symptom scale scores used for each psychiatric disorder. Secondary outcomes included all meta-analysable outcomes, such as all-cause discontinuation and safety/tolerability.
We identified 32 studies (
= 3592 participants) across 11 mental illnesses. Disease-specific analyses showed that telepsychiatry was superior to face-to-face treatment regarding symptom improvement for depressive disorders (
= 6 studies,
= 561; standardised mean difference s.m.d. = -0.325, 95% CI -0.640 to -0.011,
= 0.043), whereas face-to-face treatment was superior to telepsychiatry for eating disorder (
= 1,
= 128; s.m.d. = 0.368, 95% CI 0.018-0.717,
= 0.039). No significant difference was seen between telepsychiatry and face-to-face treatment when all the studies/diagnoses were combined (
= 26,
= 2290;
= 0.248). Telepsychiatry had significantly fewer all-cause discontinuations than face-to-face treatment for mild cognitive impairment (
= 1,
= 61; risk ratio RR = 0.552, 95% CI 0.312-0.975,
= 0.040), whereas the opposite was seen for substance misuse (
= 1,
= 85; RR = 37.41, 95% CI 2.356-594.1,
= 0.010). No significant difference regarding all-cause discontinuation was seen between telepsychiatry and face-to-face treatment when all the studies/diagnoses were combined (
= 27,
= 3341;
= 0.564).
Telepsychiatry achieved a symptom improvement effect for various psychiatric disorders similar to that of face-to-face treatment. However, some superiorities/inferiorities were seen across a few specific psychiatric disorders, suggesting that its efficacy may vary according to disease type.
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